CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
No Hearing, No Harm? Rethinking Jurisdiction and Protection in UAE v Sudan
On 5 May 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) removed the case of UAE v Sudan from its docket, declaring it “manifest” that it lacked jurisdiction under Article IX of the Genocide Convention (Order, para 14). Sudan alleged that the United Arab Emirates materially supported the Rapid Support Forces in Darfur, facilitating genocidal violence. It sought urgent provisional measures, its first application to the Court under the Convention. The Court’s response broke from its recent procedural posture in genocide litigation. In The Gambia v Myanmar and Ukraine v Russia, the ICJ held oral hearings and considered provisional measures despite unresolved jurisdictional objections. In UAE v Sudan, by contrast, the Court relied on the UAE’s reservation to Article IX to conclude that jurisdiction was excluded, and struck the case from the General List without hearing argument, testing Sudan’s legal reasoning, or...
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Creative subversions: a politics beyond representation in the UK
Britain is not at a cross roads: before us there do not lay routes from which to choose, rather there exists space to command, to commandeer. Recent student uprisings are about much more than cuts, they stand against the eviction of democracy from politics and...
For a Humanities of Resistance
I first realised that there is something strange about the term ‘Humanities’ when as the Director of my University’s Humanities Institute I participated at a meeting to set up a European Consortium of Humanities Centres. Except for the host centre in Utrecht and mine...
WikiLeaks Against Empire: On the Right to Create New History
With the release of the Afghan and Iraq War Diaries earlier this year and the current release of 250,000 confidential US Embassy cables, who at the end of 2010 does not know the name of Julian Assange and the associated website WikiLeaks? Officially launched in 2007,...
On Tactics & The City
In London recently I witnessed an evolution in the tactics of demonstrations. For the first time in my life I saw a demonstration tactically out-manoeuvre the police. Anyone who has attended a demonstration in recent years will be familiar with the police tactic of...
Protest: Wu Ming
It could be interesting to look closely at the classics the students chose to put on their shields. Let’s look at the frontline. Boccaccio’s Decameron, which is about people sharing stories while waiting for the plague to end. Asimov’s The Naked Sun, which is the...
Post-Colonies and Capitalism: Why the Colonial Still Matters
At a recent workshop organised by the Westminster International Law and Theory Centre, Doreen Massey and David Harvey both spoke about space, spatiality, and politics. While there are many significant differences in the intellectual projects of these two sages of...
University of Strategic Optimism: The Tesco Lecture
NOVEMBER 30, 2010 University of Strategic Optimism
Massey v Harvey: The Punch-up that Didn’t Happen
Early in opening discussion at the 'Spatial Justice' workshop, Massey said that those who had come for a punch-up were going to be disappointed, and she was right. While I wasn't blood-thirsty for a Massey Harvey heavy-weight match, along with many others I was...
Looking for Spatial Justice
Where is justice? Or, more precisely, what is the where of justice? For quite some time the elephant in the room of social science’s spatial turn – the formula was only mentioned three times in the last century, as Soja noted – this question has gained significant...
Adikia: On Communism and Rights
1. Back in the Eighties and Nineties, Marxist intellectuals, shaken by the Gulag revelations and the collapse of the communist states, started welcoming human rights. Claude Lefort, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Etienne Balibar and Jacques RancièreClaude Lefort, The...
Re-Post: Political Economy, Lemon Socialism and the New Global Banana Republic
Admin: We think it is important to repost this text from our early days (originally posted in March 2009). The term 'Lemon Socialism' powerfully conveys the sense of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. The first decade of the 21st century witnessed two...
University for Strategic Optimism
Inaugural lecture, 24/11/2010 “Welcome to the University for Strategic Optimism, a university based on the principal of free and open education, a return of politics to the public, and the politicisation of public space. As our university buildings are being boarded...
Student protest 24 November 2010 – London
A Poem | The Flag Up High, Horst Wessel feat. Miley Cyrus
So I put my hands up The flag high! The ranks tightly closed! SA march with bold, firm steps. They're playing my song, Comrades shot by the Red Front and reactionaries March in spirit in our ranks. And the butterflies fly away Clear the streets for the brown...
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: A Cannibal, Surreal & Subaltern Approach to Human Rights
This paper explores – briefly – four ideas: the concept of the ‘turn to emotions’, the notion of a cannibal theory, legal surrealism and the subaltern perspective on human rights. How we are to think and feel human rights today? This question is situated in a specific...
Manifesto of Legal Surrealism
First Manifesto (1988) The pedagogy of the imaginary: perspectives of late surrealism for legal teaching Not long ago I took part in an academic selection for the chair of Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires. The examining board expressed that it...
An Introduction: Legal Surrealism
We thought it might be an interesting idea of post a number of texts of a legal surrealism. We will publish a series of texts from and on the juridical writings of surrealism. As a jurisprudence it has, essentially, been written out of the canon. However, if time is...
Anthropophagite Manifesto
Only anthropophagy unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically. The world's only law. The masked expression of all individualisms, of all collectivisms. Of all religions. Of all peace treaties. Tupy, or not tupy that is the question.1 Against all catechisms....
Murderous Humanitarianism
For centuries the soldiers, priests and civil agents of imperialism, in a welter of looting, outrage and wholesale murder, have with impunity grown fat off the colored races. Now it is the turn of the demagogues, with their counterfeit liberalism. But the proletariat...
Manifesto of Surrealism
So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life – real life, I mean – that in the end this belief is lost. Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily more discontent with his destiny, has trouble assessing the objects he has been led to use, objects that his...
The End of Politics (2): Europe
How different does Europe look today from ten years ago. In 2000, influential commentators hailed the dawn of the ‘new European century’ to replace the atrocious ‘American’ 20th century. Europe was on the way to becoming the model polity for the new world. The...
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